we can be assholes without being assholes, ya know?
Main, home of the dope ass bear.
THE MAIN RULE: ALL TEXT POSTS MUST CONTAIN "MAIN" OR BE ENTIRELY IMAGES (INLINE OR EMOJI)
(Temporary moratorium on main rule to encourage more posting on main. We reserve the right to arbitrarily enforce it whenever we wish and the right to strike this line and enforce mainposting with zero notification to the users because its funny)
A hexbear.net commainity. Main sure to subscribe to other communities as well. Your feed will become the Lion's Main!
Good comrades mainly sort posts by hot and comments by new!
State-by-state guide on maintaining firearm ownership
Domain guide on mutual aid and foodbank resources
Tips for looking at financials of non-profits (How to donate amainly)
Community-sourced megapost on the main media sources to radicalize libs and chuds with
Main Source for Feminism for Babies
Maintaining OpSec / Data Spring Cleaning guide
Remain up to date on what time is it in Moscow
Shut up, nerd. How's that for an intellgence based insult, four eyes.
Not a great time for a joke like that comrade, it's honestly pretty hurtful and diminishing
I know its an obvious joke, but for real, trying to have a difficult conversation
can I still call people pp head and poopoo head?
Is smoothbrain/brainworms still fine, or is that also considered ableist? As someone suffering from a physical disabilitiy I'm always trying to be compassionate and thoughtful to others so honest question here.
I sometimes wonder how to ride the line between sensitivity towards marginalized people like disabled people, and being understanding/tolerant about the problematic language of most people so as not to be alienating and harmful to growth. I can see why the words you listed present issues, but given that they're so common to most people's language (not to say that it should remain that way), what is a good course of action (not that it's all on any one person to come up with a solution)?
good to see the trend of "i'm in argument in another thread, time to make a new thread about it" has continued from reddit
More like, argument about another site's rules in another thread...
Don't get me wrong OP, I'm not going to defend ableist language - but I really haven't seen any directed at actual users here. Maybe I'm literally blind to the issue, but... Chill mby?
please stop writing multiparagraph threads about this it is not that serious
I’m neudivergent and I agree with you but, on the other hand, I don’t think insults that are obviously hyperbolic and don’t refer to any real life condition a person could be in are that bad. Like if someone compared a chud’s brain to a leaky, expired chicken egg, I don’t care.
Bad: Ben Shapiro is a short, ugly moron.
Good: Ben Shapiro is short and ugly.
I get where you're coming from Quill, and I think full blown slurs like re[dacted] are should unambiguously be denounced. But I'm not sure if extending this to any language that could be considered ableist is productive. There's an enormous range of possible disabilities and a lot of language that can be considered ableist in one way or another.
usually when i say "stupid" or "dumb" i mean ignorant or uncritical or thoughtless or uncaring or whatever, is this ok or is it like people dont knw my intent when i say those words so i shouldnt use them
Agreed about calling people stupid.
Thoughts on calling ideas stupid?